should "Lean On Me" replace "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the US national anthem?

My nomination despite the Britishness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGc5h1yWHQ

Replace it with "Slumerican Shitizen"

if america remade itself according to the principles of "lean on me," sure

star spangled banner sucks and we've earned it

lol in the recent series of 13 Reasons Why they ended the, like, tensest episode of all with Melt The Guns and it was the worst closing-credits music choice in TV history

Lean On Me has too much sadness and pathos, it's an anthem for truly the end of the world

whut

"No Thugs In Our House" perhaps closer to the pulse of the American psyche

i just have this vision of the citizens huddling together in their caves by candlelight singing 'lean on me' as the radiation sickness picks them off one by one

Easier to imagine the end of the world than a society based on siblinghood

anthems are for sports events and occasions of pomp and circumstance; they don't really matter but they are intended to amp up glory rather than celebrate siblinghood; if they can do both, more's the better. anthems don't really matter at the end of it and they don't really have any impact on society, but it is a fun question to think about

ITT some people show they didn't follow the whole "did you know there's a verse in the Star-Spangled Banner that celebrates slavery" controversy

anyway, I already recorded the real national anthem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA9UnZUKveY

^^^^ goddamn

Lean On Your Bootstraps

Easier to imagine the end of the world than a society based on siblinghood

which is why my backup in case "Lean on Me" falls through is "Kill the Poor"

'lift every voice and sing' would be a way better choice than 'lean on me'. agreed (and great performance obv)

ITT some people show they didn't follow the whole "did you know there's a verse in the Star-Spangled Banner that celebrates slavery" controversy

I'm aware of the verse in the original poem on which the anthem is based.

Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Beliefs Here fodder but "The Star-Spangled Banner" > "Lean On Me" musically speaking.

i didn't know about that verse :(

why is there no option for "no anthems"

Give me mandatory disco sing-a-longs or give me death.

Give me mandatory disco sing-a-longs or give me death.

― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 15 July 2020 15:32 (twenty-one seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

'i feel love' can be yours, and 'left to my own devices' ours, and everyone wins

/remembers that Eric H is Canadian, not USAmerican

anyway, I already recorded the real national anthem:

Don't mean to embarrass you here but this is not actually an embed of 'Bring Out The Katz'

I'm Minne-Canadian.

it's back on

why is there no option for "no anthems"

just to annoy everyone tbh

i'm annoyed

xxpost from the Minne-Can Republic

"The Star-Spangled Banner" > "Lean On Me" musically speaking

the hideous hot take I was waiting for!

needs a guest verse IMO

The Vajazzled Banner

None of the arguments in that piece seem like reasons to pick a song as the national anthem? I could understand preferring "Lift Every Voice", "God Bless America", or "This Land Is Your Land" but "Lean on Me" is political correctness gone mad. As a non-American, I voted to keep TSSB bc Hendrix.

if they just played the hendrix solo at every sporting event and no one sang: sure

Don't mean to embarrass you here but this is not actually an embed of 'Bring Out The Katz'

yo Griff.... LIFT EV'RY VOICE!

half the stadium yelling OH, the other half yelling YES

currently discovering that i do support replacing the national anthem with "bring in the katz"

This is truly an opportunity to bring the entire nation together

Also bc I <3 that every American has to sing a descending sixth and then go up to the raised subdominant in the third bar of their anthem xps

Lots of people stan for "America the Beautiful" and not without reason - way too religious for me but there is the germ of a good idea in it. It's more about what the nation can become than how allegedly awesome the nation currently is.

"Confirm thy soul in self-control; thy liberty in law" = like, we know there's still some good in you, so please start showing it. We like the representative democratic aspects of the constitution, but you need to get better at actually living up to those principles. "Crown thy good with brotherhood" = the good things about you ("the better angels of our natures," one might say) need to be backed by fostering and promoting moves toward ACTUAL real equality.

Still, way too god-centric for irreligious me. Ditto "God Bless America," obv.

I would be okay with Lift Every Voice and Sing but only if DJP's recording is the only authorized version, and all lesser musicians are prohibited from even attempting it.

national anthem should be yes's version of simon's 'america' and fans should be forced to sing steve howe's guitar solo. if they bum a note, they don't really love america, do they?

Neil Diamond's America

Europe's "The Final Countdown"

Still, way too god-centric for irreligious me.

this is a major reason I like "Lean on Me"

The same could be said for "Dude Looks Like a Lady," of course

Also bc I <3 that every American has to sing a descending sixth and then go up to the raised subdominant in the third bar of their anthem xps

100% OTM

star-spangled banner isn't a banger or anything, but i appreciate the anachronisms, SAT words, bizarre syntax, and quaint contractions.

I was just informed that Americans don't actually sing this song with a range of a 12th every morning in school and just recite some pledge instead. I no longer admire the American spirit in taking on this challenge. Now I just want your anthem to be "Don't Stop Believin'" or some shit.

I would vote for "Dude Looks Like A Lady", for president even

Imagine if before every football game, the crowd rose to their feet and gave a solemn rendition of "Goodies" by Ciara

they do this in atlanta already, iirc

#actually the anthem should just be prince's solo on 'while my guitar gently weeps' at the 2004 r&rhof ceremony

A worthy addition to the anthem canon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vga0M4ia5Mc

lmao

star spangled banner shreds

I like it with the accompaniment even better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf0dcMH4N5U

i found my new favorite genre of music.

cpac strangled banner

let’s call em “red notes” from now on

Sung in the key of Q flat.

“Tomorrow Belongs To Meme”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqEp-NMeMF8

freeeee EEEeeeeeeeeee

hahahahaha I knew just from the text which accompaniment video you had posted

AMERICA UNCANCELED ok lol

these guys are also great just from a "how did they sing this with a straight face" standpoint

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ-O72WMRKo

jute gyte would approve

chic “everybody dance”

earth wind and fire “sing a song”

most of the songs playing at this airport bar would qualify as great new national anthems to me

Most EW&F songs would be great new national anthems.

otm

dying at the CPAC rendition upthread which I somehow missed. holy shit.

It’s incredible